GDO / ICDL
The university is a dynamic space shaped by diverse people, histories, disciplines, and power structures that both produce and are produced by knowledge. In Germany, equity efforts often focus on gender, motherhood, and disability, while race and ethnicity receive less attention. Addressing these gaps requires stronger intersectional approaches in administration, research, and teaching. The Gender and Diversity Office works to identify mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and to develop effective counter-measures. Diversity is integrated into both management structures and research agendas.
Intersectionality and Critical Diversity Literacy provide key frameworks for understanding how power shapes social relations. These approaches view differences as a source of insight and productive engagement. They analyze how hierarchies and systems such as racism, patriarchy, and colonialism structure opportunity and exclusion.
The ICDL Lecture and Workshop Series fosters reflection on diversity practices and supports the meaningful inclusion of underrepresented groups. It strengthens awareness of gender, race, culture, and knowledge production, contributing to a more inclusive and critically engaged academic environment.
Please find links to past ICDL lectures
- ICDL Lecture: Ubuntu and Ethics of WarHide
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5th November 2025
This study delves into how indicenous southern african communities embraced ubuntu as a cuidinc ethical framework durinc the nine wars of dispossession. It highlights the intricate relationship between the adoptio,n of military technolocy and the indicenous ethics that shaped their responses to, conquest and conflict. Discover how these principles influenced resilience and community solidarity in times of upheaval.
Chaired by Dr. Christine Vogt William
Join us in person or online: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/j/61881085509? pwd=HsHqfTD0GJNAaCwop4QYAANs4miQe6.1
Meeting-1D: 618 8108 5509 | passcode: 109820
- ICDL Lecture:Applying a decolonial feminist lens to clinical psychology in Africa: a case study in SenegalHide
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26th June 2025
Applying a decolonial feminist lens to clinical psychology in Africa: a case study in Senegal
The Cluster of Exellence presents an ICDL Lecture by Dr. Ismahan Diop in the context of "Applying a decolonial feminist lens to clinical psychology in Africa: a case study in Senegal"
Speaker: Dr. Ismahan Soukeyna Diop
Discussant: Dr. med. Christiana U. Udeogu-GözalanJoin us online: https://unibayreuth.zoom.us/j/2929815113pwd=9a5jN0BJF6DaZJCv43jkuWKf8mBR4v.1&omn=62176964669
Meeting-1D: 292 981 5113 | passcode: 119262
- ICDL Lecture:Beyond the Tunes: Masculine Representations, Trends and Insights from Contemporary Ghanaian AfrobeatsHide
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5 December 2024
Hybrid (on-site live and virtual presence via ZOOM)
Cluster Knowledge Lab Room
S58, RW II
University of Bayreuth, GermanyZoom
Meeting ID: 668 1584 8399
Passcode: 897688Thursday, 5 December 2024
2-4pm - ICDL Lecture and Roundtable: Unmasking Liberal Academic FreedomHide
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13 June 2024
Unmasking Liberal Academic Freedom
The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture (2-4 pm) and Roundtable (4-6 pm) on the topic of "Academic Freedom.
Please join us from 2-4 pm
for the ICDL Lecture
by Prof. Tendayi Sithole entitled
"Unmasking Liberal Academic Freedom"
- ICDL Lecture: Intersectional Complexities, Diversity Optics and Axes of SpaceHide
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1 June 2023
Intersectional Complexities, Diversity Optics and Axes of Space
The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture "Intersectional Complexities, Diversity Optics and Axes of Space" by Dr. Nirmal Puwar (PhD), Goldsmith’s College, London, UK
Thursday 1st June 2023; 4 – 6 PM
Zoom (Meeting ID: 683 9613 0569, Passcode: 897688) || Room S 58, RW I, Uni-Bayreuth